2015:357 - AUGHNAGOMAUN: Ballytarsna Castle, Ballytarsna, Tipperary

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Tipperary

Site name: AUGHNAGOMAUN: Ballytarsna Castle, Ballytarsna

Sites and Monuments Record No.: TS053-006

Licence number: 14E0320

Author: Dave Pollock

Author/Organisation Address: Knockrower Road, Stradbally, Co. Waterford

Site type: Castle - tower house

Period/Dating: Medieval (AD 400-AD 1600)

ITM: E 611520m, N 649290m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.594759, -7.829968

Foundations for a new roadside gate were cut in February, and a trench was cut for electrical ducting from the roadside to the castle. Infilled enclosure ditches and debris from a post-medieval building (on the first edition OS 1/10560 survey) were found. There was no suggestion of early buildings (no charcoal or scorched ground) between the roadside and the bawn.